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Geoff Emerick has died, aged 72. He was an unsung hero of music, who played a significant part in some of the greatest albums ever made.

Emerick was the Beatles' recording engineer, assistant to producer George Martin. Still just a teenager when he got the job, he was the guy who had to work out how to technically achieve the mad sonic ideas being conjured by John, Paul, George and Ringo. He helped make those records sound like nothing the world had ever heard before.

As a 19-year-old in Abbey Road studios in 1966, it was Emerick who wired John Lennon’s vocals through a Hammond organ’s revolving Leslie speaker to record psychedelic epic Tomorrow Never Knows. “John’s thinking process was different...